This paper presents a unified analytical framework to organize and review the literature on consumption-based poverty measurement, with a focus on establishing absolute poverty lines. Based on this framework...
Measuring poverty entails making interpersonal welfare comparisons, that should account for differences in prices faced by households, both over time and across space. This paper investigates the impact...
Extreme values are common in survey data and represent a recurring threat to the reliability of both poverty and inequality estimates. The adoption of a consistent criterion for outlier detection is useful...
It has been 20 years since Angus Deaton and Salman Zaidi's Guidelines for Constructing consumption aggregates for welfare Analysis first appeared. The paper was conceived as a how-to guide for practitioners...
Pakistan’s female labor force participation (FLFP) remains low by regional and global standards, and major disparities are observed between rural and urban FLFP, with the latter being significantly lower...
The Maldives national bureau of statistics (NBS) undertook a household income and expenditure survey (HIES) in 2016. The latest round of HIES in the Maldives (with other rounds conducted in 2003 and 2009-10)...